Power mobility device demonstration set to begin Sept. 1

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2012—Medicare’s power mobility device demonstration is set to begin Sept. 1, according to a notice scheduled for publication in the Federal Register.

The controversial demonstration will run three years in California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New York, North Carolina and Texas. And it will apply to the following mobility devices:

• Group 1 Power Operated Vehicles (K0800 through K0802 and K0812)
• All standard power wheelchairs (K0813 through K0829)
• All Group 2 complex rehabilitative power wheelchairs (K0835 through
• K0843)
• All Group 3 complex rehabilitative power wheelchairs without power options (K0848 through K0855)
• Pediatric power wheelchairs (K0890 and K0891)
• Miscellaneous power wheelchairs (K0898)